Harris
liet als atheïst o.a. weten het niet te begrijpen dat mensen een
geloof omarmen, een geloof bijvoorbeeld in een god, waarvoor elk
bewijs ontbreekt........ Nu doet deze Harris precies hetzelfde als
christenen doen, geloven in een zaak die niet te bewijzen is, daar
deze nooit heeft plaatsgevonden....
Je
vraagt je wellicht af waarom Harris gelooft dat Rusland de
verkiezingen manipuleerde, wel dat is héééél simpel: de geheime
diensten van de VS zeggen dat het zo is....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Als er nu één ding duidelijk is, is het wel het feit dat de geheime
diensten in de VS vooral goed zijn in liegen, zelfs als het tegendeel
meer dan bewezen is, neem de leugens die hebben geleid tot de
illegale oorlog in 2003 van de VS en haar NAVO partners tegen Irak.
De claim dat Irak massavernietigingswapens had, was al 10 keer naar
de prullenbak verwezen door het VN team van wapeninspecteurs o.l.v.
Blix.......
Credulous Atheist Believes Evidence-Free Establishment Russia Narrative
The
other day RT reporter Dan Cohen flagged how
New Atheism guru Sam Harris recently had a shady cold war manipulator
on his podcast promulgating the establishment narrative that Russian
hackers and trolls interfered in the 2016 US election, despite the
fact that there is no more publicly available evidence for this than
there is for the existence of biblical Jehovah. I find this both
fascinating and hilarious.
Listen to New Atheist guru @SamHarrisOrg faithfully accept @NewKnowledgeAI disinformation warrior @noUpside's claim that there's no doubt Russia meddled in the 2016 election because "the intelligence agencies know it happened" https://t.co/GHf94ZAEtB HT @Whtaplpic.twitter.com/Hgf4PQzTA9
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) January 16, 2019
Harris, author of The End of Faith and commonly mentioned in the same breath as atheistic thought leaders like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, once wrote the following:
"While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.”
Belief
in the establishment Russia narrative is very much the same. As Ray
McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity recently
documented in an
excellent article for Consortium
News titled
"A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on
Russia-gate", the entire election meddling narrative was built
upon an ODNI* assessment by two dozen analysts hand-picked and
overseen by James Clapper. McGovern notes how Clapper, then the
Director of National Intelligence, is notorious for having helped
sell the lies that led to the Iraq invasion, for lying to congress
about NSA surveillance, and for multiple
instances of
claiming that Russians are genetically
predisposed to
nefarious behavior.
We
the public have never seen the evidence that led to this extremely
shady assessment's findings, yet those findings have gradually been
integrated into mass media reports as infallible fact upon which the
rest of the establishment Russia narrative has been built. Like
belief in mainstream religions, the only reason its lack of evidence
fails to come into question is because it has been made popular by
mainstream politicians and credulous media talking heads who have
been reporting it as fact day in and day out for two years, without
adding any solid, tangible evidence to the equation beyond the
unsubstantiated say-so of intelligence agencies with an extensive
record of lying to the public to manufacture support for preexisting
geopolitical agendas. It's an entirely faith-based narrative, only
instead of placing faith in the words of priests and books authored
by long-dead men, faith is placed in the authoritative say-so of the
imperial intelligence community.
I really enjoyed speaking with Renee DiResta about information warfare. We live in interesting times...@noUpside samharris.org/podcasts/145-i…
Waking Up Podcast #145 - The Information War | Sam Harris
It's funny then, given the aforementioned quote, that Harris escalated his already highly credulous relationship with the CIA Russia narrative in a podcast earlier this month titled "The Information War" in which he nodded faithfully along with a guest whose organization was recently exposed as having manufactured the appearance of Russian election meddling in an Alabama Senate race. His guest, Renee DiResta, is named in a December New York Times report for her involvement in a project by narrative control firm New Knowledge, which claims in an internal document to have "orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the [Alabama Senate candidate Roy] Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.” This same narrative control firm which manufactured the bogus story that Moore was being amplified by Russian bots also authored two reports on Russian social media meddling for the US Congress in December which set off a week's worth of hysterical shrieking headlines.
At
no time in Harris' interview with DiResta does he question any of her
cold war rhetoric or baseless assertions, and indeed he eggs her
along with agreeable questions along the lines of the CIA/CNN Russia
narrative.
"Many
people, certainly most Trump supporters, continue to doubt whether
Russia interfered in anything in 2016," Harris said, as though
skepticism of the unproven claims of shady intelligence agencies is a
bad thing, then asked point-blank, "Is there any basis for doubt
about that at this point?"
"Nope,"
DiResta replied.
"This
is just crystal clear as a matter of what our intelligence services
tell us, and a matter of what people like you can ascertain by just
studying online behavior?" Harris helpfully added.
"It
happened," DiResta replied. "There's really nothing else to
say about it. The intelligence agencies know it happened, foreign
governments know it happened, the platforms acknowledge it happened.
There
may be some small group of people that continues to live like
ostriches, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen."
Intelligence
agencies know something happened, therefore it happened. The Pope
knows bread and wine transubstantiates into the literal body and
blood of Jesus Christ, therefore it happens. Sam Harris went right
along with this, completely unquestioning like a good little cult
member.
Silly Republican, as if a $100k social media campaign “could have affected the closely fought Senate race” in 2017.
Oh wait, that’s also the prevailing liberal supposition about a ~$100k Russian social media campaign in a 2016 presidential race. Never mind!
Oh wait, that’s also the prevailing liberal supposition about a ~$100k Russian social media campaign in a 2016 presidential race. Never mind!
In an
article for The
Nation,
journalist Aaron Maté breaks down how the data within the
establishment Russia narrative itself shows that Russia's social
media involvement in US politics was "small, amateurish, and
mostly unrelated to the 2016 election," with only a tiny
fraction of the Russia-based Internet Research Agency's US content
having anything to do with the election at all, a very small amount
of funds allocated to the total project, and making up an
infinitesimally small percentage of total social media content viewed
by Americans. Maté has
also noted that
the total expenditure on IRA posts for the entire US election is
actually comparable to what New Knowledge spent on its "false
flag operation" in the Alabama Senate race alone, which New
Knowledge claims was too small to have impacted the election.
If
that's not enough reason for you to be skeptical, Maté and the Moon
of Alabama blog point
out that there is no evidence that the Internet Research Agency had
any intent to influence the election, nor indeed that it is anything
other than a for-profit clickbait operation. Looking at the content
of the posts we've been shown and the statistics we've been told
about them, this is very difficult to argue against, which is
probably why nobody ever tries to.
Sam
Harris the credulous atheist never brings any of this up,
uncritically letting his guest spout faith-based doctrine about both
Kremlin social media interference and Russian hacking.
"Let's
talk about the WikiLeaks data dump," DiResta said later in
the podcast. "So as you mentioned at the start, the GRU** had this
hack, they had these emails and they laundered these emails through
WikiLeaks. They gave them to WikiLeaks."
There
is no more publicly available evidence that this happened than there
is that the Qur'an is the actual, literal word of actual, literal
Allah, yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist never asked her for
evidence of her claims. He uncritically let her advance not just
establishment narratives but establishment agendas as well, nodding
agreeably along as she called for social media platforms to
collaborate with intelligence agencies and grieved about America
being legally unable to respond with propaganda of its own to Russian
online manipulations.
Support
for establishment cold war narratives against Russia is not the only
front along which Sam Harris finds himself in alignment with
neoconservatism, whose push for a more aggressive posture toward the
USSR was one of the early tenets of the movement. Harris' extensive
history of Islamophobic
comments and
his sympathetic
attitude toward
the so-called "war on terror" and US military
interventionism in Muslim-majority nations play right into the hands
of neoconservative agendas in the Middle East, and he's been accused
of being a closet neocon so
much he's had
to publicly address it.
Neoconservatives have been consistently wrong about literally
everything to do with foreign policy for decades, yet Sam Harris the
credulous atheist finds theirs a sufficiently rational ideology to
ride alongside. There is no more evidence that US interventionism in
the Middle East is helpful than there is for the existence of Vishnu,
yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist uncritically endorses it.
Establishment-fueled
Russia hysteria is a religion. It is an entirely faith-based belief
system which has toxic
effects on the people who subscribe to it,
and toxic effects on the world as it manufactures support for insane
escalations between two nuclear superpowers. As we discussed
yesterday,
if you don't have a functioning radar for detecting malignant
narratives, you might get lucky and find yourself in opposition to
some pernicious belief systems, yet also find yourself selling CIA
narratives to your very large online audience as well.
Credulous
atheist Sam Harris doesn't oppose all religions. He is critical of
some of them, and he is a zealous bishop of others.
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Hier nog een gesprek tussen Harris en Renée DiResta, 'Waking Up Podcast #145' waarvan zoals je ziet de afbeelding al te zien was in het op één na laatste Twitterbericht:
* ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence.Hier nog een gesprek tussen Harris en Renée DiResta, 'Waking Up Podcast #145' waarvan zoals je ziet de afbeelding al te zien was in het op één na laatste Twitterbericht:
** GRU = GROe (Nederland)
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Zie ook:
'Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met 'vers' geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd'
'Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht'
'NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media'
'Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, 'na een geldig verzoek' op grond van Saoedische wetgeving....'
'Bedrijf dat voor 'Russische bots' waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots'
'Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen'
'Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid'
'Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort'
'Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal Expands' Ofwel: het zoveelste 'gevalletje fake news', gebracht door de reguliere massamedia........
'Facebook censureert foto's van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als 'sexual content''
'Google manipuleerde VS presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 en censureert niet alleen linkse/alternatieve sociale media'
'Facebook gebruikte 'fake news' beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden'
'Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart'
'Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert'
'Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen'
'Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp'
'Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen'
'Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax' (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben......)
'The US military’s vision for state censorship'
'Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen'
'Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika's.......'
'Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder..........'
'Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone' (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)
'First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were' (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)
'CNN, de grote brenger van 'fake news!!!''
'Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts.........'
'Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media'
'Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld......'
'Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur.....'
Facebook verlaat 'tranding news' voor 'brekend nieuws' van 80 reguliere mediaorganen, ofwel nog meer 'fake news.....''
'Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News.... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, 'het land van het vrije woord....''
'Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws......'
'Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten.....'
'Aanval op alternatieve media 'succesvol': meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd.........'
'ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd.... ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)'
'Facebook stelt perstituee van New York Times aan als censuur-agent...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Het echte Facebook schandaal: manipulatie van de gebruikers en gratis diensten voor eertijds presidentskandidaat Obama.......'
'Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook doneerde aan de politici die hem in de VS aan de tand voelden >> in het EU parlement maakte hij gebruik van megalomane EU politici.....'
'Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren.... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You' Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.
'Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII......'
'VS gebruikt sociale media om 'fake comment' te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel 'fake news....''
'Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!'
'Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door.......'
'Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet.......'
'Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie.......'
'Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
